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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

2 June - Blogs I'm Following

This is a photo showing a memorial to Arab inventors in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 2 June 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a photo showing a piece of artwork in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 2 June 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a photo showing the interior of Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 2 June 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a photo showing the Starbucks located in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 2 June 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

LONG BEACH, CA - MAY 10: Boeing employees wave United States and United Arab Emirates flags during a handing off ceremony of the first of six C-17 Globemaster III airlifters at the Boeing final assembly facility at Long Beach Airport on May 10, 2011 in Long Beach, California. The UAE will take delivery of three more C-17s this year and two in 2012 as it modernizes its airlift capabilities. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Starbucks in the Ibn Battuta MallGreetings Ducklings! Just sending y'all a little post-card from the United Arab Emirates where I am spending a couple of weeks in Dubai and the neighboring emirates tryin...

Here's the last word (or it would be if only North Carolina weren't under the rule of Koch-funded Republican plants at all levels) on John Edwards' innocence of the violation of federal campaign regulation...

If one ever had to ponder the sanity of the European people, then the result of the Irish referendum on European fiscal policy, must surely cause such pondering. In the referendum, 60% of those who voted...

Well, there are probably weeks that don't start with the Euromess, but not too many of them. And on top of that, quite a bit of bad news in the US economy. The DOMA decision this week sure seems another s...

Comparisons are being made between Vince Li and Luka Magnotta. Since Mr. Li was found not criminally responsible could Mr. Magnotta be also so found? Readers may recall Mr. Li was found not criminally res...

Miami police have released the emergency call recordings of several people who rang to report a disturbing cannibal attack in which a homeless man had most of his face bitten off. Ronald Poppo was set u...

*Feeble U.S. Job Growth Stokes Fears of Global Slowdown. The New York Times. * http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/business/economy/us-added-69000-jobs-in-may-jobless-rate-at-8-2.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&...

Florida isn't someplace progressives normally turn for good political news. Just the other day People For the American Way was wondering aloud if Gov. Rick Scott's ALEC disenfranchisement schemes would re...

I don't think this is any surprise. Stuxnet was work of U.S. and Israeli experts, officials say http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/stuxnet-was-work-of-us-and-israeli-experts-officials-...

The boy was admitted to hospital a week ago with convulsions after arriving from the southern Chinese city of Guangdong. The Centre for Health Protection said he had tested positive for the AH5 strain of ...

At least seven people have been killed and many injured in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, in clashes linked to unrest across the border in Syria. Supporters and opponents of the uprising against Pres...

Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has called for the eurozone to have a "centralised control" authority, which would be in charge of the budgets of all the nation states. Mr Rajoy has become the ...

I want to present another important article that focuses in on important health news, and the importance of taking the right supplements into our bodies for our better health. I cannot stress enough that...

Disputes and misunderstanding are common among people. That is because people are different from each other, in personal, cultural, religious, economic and political belief. The more people in a community,...

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Fukushima -- The mayor of a radiation-contaminated town near the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant told assembly members June 1 that residents should stay away from the town for at least ...

The Cabinet Office's Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) delivered a list of issues to be discussed at a JAEC panel session on a new nuclear policy to pro-nuclear members during a secret meeting in Febru...

(Reuters) - Iran has warned the United States not to resort to military action against it, saying U.S. bases in the region were vulnerable to the Islamic Republic's missiles, state media reported on Saturd...

*American Scofflaw* an off-duty fellow officer for drunk driving. But after the Nov. 28, 2009 arrest, Vanderburgh was “harassed and berated” by fellow officers for seemingly violating an unwritten code am...

(Reuters) - "My friend is on the floor, dying, 11 holes in his body, and I only have 10 fingers," raps Tamer Nafar. "Don't close your eyes, blink if you can hear me." Nafar isn't rapping about violence a...

(Reuters) - The United States will shift a majority of its warships to the Asia-Pacific region by 2020, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Saturday, giving the first details of a new U.S. military str...

(Reuters) - Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama hasn't exactly been a friend to marijuana users. Sure, he has acknowledged smoking pot as a young man, but he has disappointed marijuana advocates by o...

(CNN) -- In amended charges presented Friday, U.S. military authorities accused Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales of illicit steroid and alcohol use in addition to 16 counts of premeditated murder for allegedl...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Wall Street suffered its bloodiest day of the year Friday as U.S. stocks sank more than 2% following an ugly jobs report. The Dow erased all its gains for the year, and the S&P 500 ...

(Financial Times) -- Beijing has indicated that it will lift its year-long moratorium on new nuclear projects in a move that will breathe life into an industry plagued by uncertainty since the disaster at...

Singapore (CNN) -- As part of a "rebalancing" with Asia, the United States will enhance military-to-military cooperation with China while also boosting the capabilities of its allies in the region, U.S. D...

(CNN) -- A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan killed two militants in Pakistan's tribal region on Saturday, a local government official said. The drone fired two missiles at a motorcycle the militants...

Defence Minister Stephen Smith has spoken of "the positive impact" of the United States' presence in the Asia-Pacific, just hours after the Pentagon announced it is shifting more navy ships to the region....

This CBC story details the United Nations' condemnation of Canadian complicity in various instances of torture. It criticizes such things as: - How Canada's recent immigration law reforms put more refug...

This week, the Harper government legislated Canadian Pacific workers back to their jobs, claiming it was "protecting the economy." It used the same argument to justify its back to work legislation at C...

This movie, purportedly from North Korea, dissects western propaganda with deceptive simplicity. It's actually quite a sophisticated exposé of the fraudulent nature of our two-party electoral one-party can...

Oh dear. Seems like someone closely associated with another NHL team has stepped in the fetushist cowpie. Mark Donnelly is an opera singer based out of Vancouver, but he's perhaps best-known as the Canadi...

(CNN) -- A bear ate the corpse of a convicted killer in a wooded area of Canada, according to authorities. The mauled body of Rory Nelson Wagner, 53, was found in a rural area in southern British Columb...

The company says it is part of a restructure that will lead to a brighter future for its customers. The chain has new owners who are looking to offload the branches to remove a global debt of almost $900...

The Australian stock market faces a bleak start to the trading week on Monday after the crash in international indexes on Friday. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 275 points as tra...

Cairo (CNN) -- Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak was transferred to a prison near Cairo on Saturday to serve his life sentence, a prosecutor said, a final fall from grace for a man who ruled the nati...

A Chicago police officer has been caught on tape unfairly arresting journalists who were filming on public property - despite this being a right under the First Amendment. The case is the latest example o...

Whilst the BBC and much of the rest of the British media distract us with the Jubilee, a coup is taking place in Europe. Junge Freiheit explain what the ESM will mean for the EuroZone, the EU and indeed b...

A woman who is accused of bludgeoning her abusive husband to death with a hammer did not call 911 for two weeks while his body lay in their blood-spattered bedroom. Donna Williams, 51,from Vancouver, Was...

An disasterous U.S. jobs report that was released on Friday caused the Dow Jones industrial average to drop 275 points, marking the index's biggest loss since November of 2011 and possibly spelling trouble...

General Motor's announced closure in Oshawa is bad news, bad news indeed. Canada gave General Motors $9.5 billion in 2009 when the auto manufacturer filed for bankruptcy. The terms and conditions of that ...

A new financial report from GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney shows that his personal fortune remains near $250 million, even after a mass sell-off of stocks from his vast investment portfolio. Rom...

Barcodes and microchips could be found on nearly everything these days, but could humans be next? American science fiction author Elizabeth Moon raised a few eyebrows last week when she revived the debat...

Following several disturbing incidents involving cannibalism that have set the internet aflutter with rumours of an impending ‘Zombie Apocalypse,’ the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a...

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him of complicity in the murder of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power. Around ...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 14.3 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:50:18 UTC Saturday 2nd June 2012 The epicenter was 634 km (39...

A kidnapped British aid worker has been rescued in Afghanistan in what David Cameron has described as an "extradordinarily brave, breath-taking" operation by coalition forces. Helen Johnston, 28, was fre...

Scientists have revealed the eight biggest unanswered questions surrounding our universe. They range from the mystery of dark matter, which makes up 73% of everything but has never been identified, to qu...

A woman who arranged for her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend to be killed after he posted topless pictures of her online wept yesterday as she was jailed for seven years. Gedu Bibi, 47, was furious afte...

New evidence being investigated by police in Los Angeles may link the apparent suicide of a man in London to the notorious Charles Manson murder family. There has been a lingering suspicion that 29-year-...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. turned himself in a Las Vegas courtroom today to begin serving a three-month jail sentence for attacking his ex-girlfriend in September 2010 while two of their children watched – but ...

A top canoe coach who represented Great Britain in three Olympics was found guilty today of sexually abusing one of his promising young pupils. Peter Lawler, 71, faces a jail sentence for indecently assau...

*The War on Health: The FDA’s Cult of Tyranny Live Simulcast June 15, 2012* *By Gary Null* While the FDA marches on with its plans to take away your right to health and nutrition, this documentary thre...

One in four senior civil servants at the failing UK Border Agency have received bonuses of up to £7,000 last year, it has been revealed. The handouts came despite numerous cases of allowing people into Br...

A Maryland woman who did not have a valid drivers license accidentally backed her SUV over five children, killing her eight-year-old daughter and putting her two-year-old son in hospital. Marianable Cruz-...

A neglected toddler died after his addict parents repeatedly gave him the heroin substitute methadone 'like Calpol', a court heard today. Jayden-Lee Green, 23 months, died after being given a last fatal, ...

GREECE. SYRIZA's Proposals: The Exit From the Crisis Is On the Left Global Research Canada, June 1, 2012 *SYRIZA's Proposals:* *The Exit From the Crisis Is On the Left* *1. Creation of a shield to p...

A top Chinese state security official has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the U.S., sources have claimed. It is a case both countries have kept quiet for several months as they strive to prevent...

Syrian troops brutally slaughtered 13 factory workers after forcing them off a bus in the third massacre in less than a week, it has been claimed. Two videos showing the aftermath of yesterday's killings i...

Ireland's voters gave a grudging seal of approval to an EU treaty that paves the way for further austerity measures across the continent in a desperate attempt to fight the debt-crisis that threatens the e...

Most masked robbers opt for a balaclava to hide their identity. Not this one. Henley Stephenson, 41, eluded police for more than ten years thanks to an extraordinarily lifelike latex mask, which turned hi...

Five members of a traveller family who avoided paying £500,000 in taxes and fraudulently claimed £100,000 in benefits were sentenced today. Husband and wife John and Brigid Coffey, and their children Mich...

In the final paragraph of a March 2012 blog entry, I encouraged the Perimeter Institute and Oxford University to cut their ties with an anti-Bell-theorem activist and the author of repetitive and smug, yet...

The head of the World Bank yesterday warned that financial markets face a rerun of the Great Panic of 2008. On the bleakest day for the global economy this year, Robert Zoellick said crisis-torn Europe w...

Remember 2010? British taxpayers could be forced to stump up another £5billion to rescue Spain as the crisis in the eurozone spirals out of control. Fears are mounting that Madrid will have to ask for a...

Before he moved to Bali, Julian Ponder was the director of a company that specialised in organising exclusive corporate and private parties in London. No expense, it seems, was spared on these occasions. ...

Luka Magnotta, Pictured centre and left (as police impression of what he may look like) harboured murderous fantasies one of his transsexual lovers, Arsenault, right, has revealed. 'I'm afraid that when y...

The British officer lay flat on his stomach — down on his belt buckle, in Army parlance — beside the dusty Helmand road and stared intently at the red drum buried in the earth and the ominous white wires ...

A used-car salesman has been found guilty of murdering his estranged wife, their young son and his father-in-law by setting fire to their family home after his marriage collapsed. Danai Muhammadi, 24, wa...

*Radiative cooling (and warming) isn't a key effect: a piece of the man-made climate change "lore" is shaken* This particular paper which may have isolated a major mistake in the would-be mainstream "lo...

New Delhi, June 1: Dozens of forest fires are raging across Uttarakhand, forest and tourist industry officials said. The fires have injected smoke into the mountain air and disappointed tourists at spots...

AVON, N.C. (WAVY) - A spokeswoman for the Avon Medical Clinic confirmed a shark attack in Avon around 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The clinic says the victim was a female tourist. National Park Service spokeswoma...

This is a pretty extraordinary claim and it may well be a primary climate driver. The waxing and waning of the density factor is on the time scales that appears to be rapid enough to explain the long cyc...

What this reminds us of is that the shoreline is always an active zone in which instability is the norm. the only strategy available that is capable of stabilizing a shoreline is to assist in the growt...

This shows us that graphene based solar cells are plausibly simple to create and produce. The transparency also provide additional flexibility in terms of design. One step up from this and we certainly h...

PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- Jeremy Moore, 20, of the Hurley community, was killed and two fellow workers were injured in an explosion Friday morning at Mississippi Phosphates Corp. Moore is the second wor...

MORE THAN 1,000 HECTARES OF FOOD CROPS, MAINLY RICE, CASSAVA, SWEET POTATOES, BEANS, MAIZE, AS WELL AS NUMEROUS HOUSES, HAVE BEEN DESTROYED mark World Environment Day on June 5, farmers in the remote vill...

LAGOS— AT least 10 people died yesterday in two unrelated accidents between Lagos and Ibadan. On the Lagos- Ibadan expressway, five people were burnt in a multiple accident involving nine fuel tankers wh...

Britain's manufacturing sector contracted at the fastest rate in three years in May, signalling the economy is still mired in recession. Economists said it also made the prospect of "a shot in the arm" fro...

WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly ...

Last month's solar flare created a mysterious pulse on Earth that seemed to 'answer' sun's blast Neutron monitors around world 'lit up' despite relatively small size of flare. First time in six years...

Several people were injured as sheep rained down on their cars after a lorry crashed on a bridge in South Australia. The vehicle carrying 400 livestock overturned on a highway overpass causing the anima...

The Defence Department was left red-faced after two Afghans it brought to Australia as part of a program to train Diggers deploying overseas claimed asylum soon after arriving. The Weekend West understan...

Are commentators over-dramatising the perils facing the euro zone or are things finally about to get serious? With good sense seemingly getting a run in Greece with recent polls pointing to a win for a co...

Police will interview a man arriving from India today, whose wife and two children died in a house fire in Melbourne's south-east on Friday. Detectives are still investigating a possible murder-suicide aft...

Body parts posted to political parties in Canada were those of a Chinese student whose lover is being sought by the police after a video of the murder was put online. Police in Canada confirmed the 32-ye...

The "desperately worried" family of a Royal Navy sailor who went missing in Dubai have issued a plea for help. Leading Seaman (LS) Timothy Andrew MacColl, 27, known as Timmy, was a crew member on the fri...

A US government website has published what it said was photographic evidence of mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian regime forces. The State Department-operated website, published a serie...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 005:01:02 UTC Saturday 2nd June 2012 The epicenter was 1597 km (992 miles) South...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 54.9 km (34.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:11:24 UTC Friday 1st June 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) South o...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck San Juan, Argentina at a depth of 19.1 km (11.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:19:51 UTC Friday 1st June 2012 The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) SSW from San Juan, Argent...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 522 km (323.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:31:44 UTC Friday 1st June 2012 The epicenter was 279 km (172.9 miles) West of Nuku'alofa, Tonga...

It may seem as though the 21st century is still just getting started. But there is one event that will occur on Tuesday night UTC and its next repetition will have to wait until the year 2117. And in the "...

The neighbourhood watch volunteer who killed an unarmed black teenager in a case that outraged America has been ordered to return to custody. George Zimmerman has 48 hours to surrender to authorities afte...

Earlier today I was reading about the political scandal involving ALEC ALUM John Kasich - which involves all kinds of drama and intrigue including an FBI investigation and I read this little snip: “Had I a...

*1. Bilderberg Is Just A Talking Shop.* The record of history proves to the contrary. Bilderberg is the West's foremost policy hub. As Paul Joseph Watson *writes*, "Bilderberg is not merely a talking ...

The law banning all outdoor feedings of large numbers of people on City parkland went into effect on Friday. Mayor Michael Nutter has said the ban will protect the dignity of the homeless, cleanliness of...

*Libya* Only 13% of Egyptians support NATO's toppling of Gaddafi. "Residents in several North African countries, including Morocco (12%), Egypt (13%), and Algeria (14%) were the least likely to say they ...

I have been following the disaster at Fukushima Japan for a long time now, and I know for a fact that the situation has not changed, no matter what the clowns who run our governments, and the liars in the ...

“These three bright nebulae are often featured in telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius and the crowded starfields of the central Milky Way. In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messie...

The criminal and terrorist state of Israel, along with its obedient puppet slaves in the United States, are still pushing as hard as possible to convince a very skeptical world of the need to attack and d...

Since the start of the year I decided to do what many here do...rent out rooms. And I must say off the top that it's been a great experience. Aside from the obvious extra income, it's been nice to meet p...

The head of the World Bank yesterday warned that financial markets face a rerun of the Great Panic of 2008. On the bleakest day for the global economy this year, Robert Zoellick said crisis-torn Europe w...

US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia have plotted bloodbath for years. Tony Cartalucci Land Destroyer June 2, 2012 *Timeline* *1991:* Paul Wolfowitz, then Undersecretary of Defense, tells US Army General Wesle...

Every time I mention no Chemtrails on this blog, they come back. A real pitiful chemtrail was right over my house. Also getting reports Denver was heavily hit with Chemtrails today. Someday soon this ...

*The official position is that the [atom] bomb released no lethal radiation. Reports to the contrary are suppressed both in the U.S. and Japan. In the New York Times, William Laurence ["Atomic Bill" was...

*Obama to You: I Want You Dead. And I Have A Secret List, So Watch Out.* Read the following articles by Glenn Greenwald about Obama's fake toughness and radical destruction of the law: *The Authoritar...

Found an interesting comment in the post regarding the US supplying weapons for their terrorists in Syria... kaspi June 1, 2012 1:24 AM Georgia relocates parliament to international hub of weapons traffi...

The summer of 2012 is looking like an “eerie” echo of 2008 but euro zone sovereign debt has replaced mortgages as the risky asset class that markets are anxious about, said Robert Zoellick, President of t...

I'll have another 40 years ago update soon, but I'm stepping out of the narrative for a minute, especially for those who are interested but not enough to read all the day-by-day posts, to deal with the que...

*"Cyberwar: * *US and Israel Created Stuxnet, Lost Control of It"* by Nate Anderson "In 2011, the US government rolled out its "International Strategy for Cyberspace," which reminded us that "intercon...

I have long been intrigued by Orson Scott Card's typology of relations to the other, as expressed in his novel *Speaker for the Dead*. I like it so much that I used it as a central part of my argument (in ...

At 9:00 a.m. this morning I opened a web-browser to the Tepco cam trained on the Fukushima plant. I look at the plant every morning and take screen shots of emissions. This morning I noticed barely visib...

Today, on National Doughnut Day (when it was formerly announced that Mayor (3-Terms!) Bloomberg will be further cleaning up New York City environs (so to speak) by banning sugary drinks over 16 ounces - th...

From the *Journal-Sentinel*: By Diane Ravitch If you are concerned about the future of public education in Wisconsin, vote to oust Gov. Scott Walker. Since his election in 2010, he has proved himself to b...

Friday, June 1, 2012 *Return of the Goddess - Update* Posted by Cobra at Portal 2012 The critical mass for this visualization to have desired effect is about 118,000 people worldwide actually doing it ...

There's been a lot of talk about how Romney's experience in the private sector has made him especially unfit for any kind of government service. Certainly the Bain experience at Warner Bros. Records prove...

Return Of The Goddess June 5, 2012 http://2012portal.blogspot.com On June 5th/6th there will be a Venus transit, a rare cosmic event when planet Venus passes in front of the solar disk. Goddess energ...

Want to check out a free sample of what our magazine is like? Just click on the banner above and download the free Sample Edition PDF! If you like what you see, you can help support the Coming Crisis by su...

Driving through the village of Cullingworth today, I was impressed by the number of Union Jack flags from one end of the village to the other. In other parts of the Bradford metropolitan district, the di...

I am posting this cluster F of a segment from *Hardballs* to show the Romney ad that deliberately clips the president's words to make them mean something he did not say. But after watching the segment, I t...

The judge has revoked the bond of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman must report to Seminole County jail by Sunday at 2:30 ...

ATHENS — Greece's radical leftist party Syriza laid out Friday a manifesto likely to leave the country's eurozone future hanging by a thread if it wins elections later this month. A bailout deal with the...

The man believed to have been brutally slayed in a videotaped attack before his body parts were mailed to Canada's top political parties was his killer's gay lover, police have revealed. Montreal Police ...

Are there major differences between Democratic and Republican elites on multilateral cooperation? This question animates a new study that I carried out with my frequent collaborator Jon Monten and my colle...

Perhaps having Conservative MPs isn't as helpful as one might think? http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1204159 "As previously announced, the Consolidated Line will cease at the end of (the) sch...

More than 100 people are thought to have been struck down by a vomiting and diarrhoea bug at a luxury hotel. NHS Tayside said it was investigating suspected cases of norovirus at Gleneagles Hotel in Aucht...

Mounted Police Association of Ontario v. Canada (Attorney General), 2012 ONCA 363 was released today. It is a very lengthy and careful decision that will almost certainly go to the Supreme Court: http://...

Few governments can last two terms without succumbing to a "time for a change" sentiment. And after blogging for 8 years, I'm feeling very much the same. So thanks to a generous "blog redesign tax credit"...

*"Egos and Immorality"* By Paul Krugman “In the wake of a devastating financial crisis, President Obama has enacted some modest and obviously needed regulation; he has proposed closing a few outrageou...

Adan Garcia and Don Antonio Garcia building a fogonI feel a bit like the family dog at work sometimes, mystified much of the time as to why my workmates are bundling me into the truck to go somewhere but a...

Cops are corrupt and they don't even try to hide it. They're liars and cheats who don't think twice about breaking the public trust and trampling it under their combat boots. Does this sound extreme, un...

This is not the ultimate sci-fi-horror FACE PALM I've just returned from watching Ridley Scott's Prometheus film The ANNUNAKI nutjobs are gonna have a field day with this film my Scene360 Prometheus film...

Teen sensation suffered concussion after an ill-advised confrontation with the wall. Justin Bieber was left with a "bit of headache" last night (May 31) after he collided with a glass wall and suffered co...

Stock markets hit to their lowest level in 2012 as poor US jobless figures and weak manufacturing data from Europe sparked renewed fears of a global slowdown. World markets plunged to their lowest level ...

(Reuters) - EU paymaster Germany softened its drive for austerity across the euro zone on Friday, agreeing to allow Spain more time to cut its deficit while its battles a deepening bank crisis, capital fli...

Seems like a good day to give one to Paul Krugman, who is left speechlessby Alan Greenspan. Why? Here's what Greenspan is worrying about these days: The former central bank leader — nicknamed "The Maestro"...

Fourteen people have been jailed for a total of more than 70 years for their part in a riot that saw petrol bombs thrown at a police station in Nottingham. Three police officers and three community servi...

On 1 June 2012, the American-owned Herald newspaper reveals *how the UK Government hid a secret Lockerbie report * The report blames the *Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command*...

*FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012* *Part 4—MSNBC doesn’t care too:* You can’t really blame Gail Collins’ readers if they’re somewhat clueless about the public schools. They read the New York Times every day. They’ve ...

Two men have been found guilty of murdering three generations of the same family in an arson attack at their home in Chatham, Kent. Danai Muhammadi, 24, and Farhad Mahmud, 35, were convicted at Maidstone ...

In August 1976, a Soviet rocket landed on the moon, drilled six feet into the surface, extracted about half a pound of rock and flew back. In the rocks that it brought back, water made up around 0.1%. It...

Three men have been found guilty of rioting, reckless arson and firearms possession after police were 'lured' to a pub fire and shot at during last summer’s riots. Tyrone Laidley, 20, of Nechells, Birmin...

Here's something for future generations to look forward to: When Galaxies Collide: Earth’s home, the Milky Way Galaxy, will collide with a nearby galaxy called Andromeda in 4 billion years, according ...

The CBSA harassing political journalists trying to enter Canada: bad. The FBI free to operate within Canadian borders: worse. Years ago when people stoked fears of co-called "deep integration" between Ca...

[image: retrenchment graph] Here is part one where argued that America’s *8 most important allies are, in order: Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Israel, and South Korea*. I arg...

Holy fucking shit! In May, 2011, the anti-democratic harpercons stole a majority government (by a margin of 6,000 votes) based on a nation-wide campaign of election fraud. As a result, harper is driving a ...

Facebook experienced service outages for portions of its 900 million users tonight after the social networking site was apparently targeted by hacking group Anonymous. Taking to Twitter to express their ...

Since June last year, the strange shape at the bottom of the Baltic Sea has caused so much speculation. Sonar pictures showed a massive, metallic cylinder with a 60 metre diameter and a 400 metre-long ta...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here's an idea that's never occurred to Republican activists: Cage-free shopping for votes. Here's another idea to Florida voters...

After an unusually long quiet period, the sun unleashed a solar flare on May 17 this year - but scientists are now puzzling over what happened on Earth. Neutron monitors all round the world lit up in res...

*Dennis v. Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission*, 2012 ONCA 368 is a helpful case dealing with Reply in the context of a factum, but with broader implications. Despite the practice of some, reply is ...

AMERICAN STATE LEGISLATURES are capable of amazing comedy. According to Charlie Jane Anders, at io9, the latest silliness is courtesy of North Carolina (of which someone once remarked that the state bird, th...

[image: Activists paint 'Reef in danger' on the side of a ship in the port town of Gladstone, Australia. The harbour is undergoing the biggest dredging operation ever approved in Australia. From 2014, hu...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Businesses hired far fewer workers than expected in May, throwing into doubt the strength of the economic recovery. Only 69,000 jobs were added last month, the weakest growth in a y...

May 31, 2012 Bryan Law of Press For Truth travels to Montreal, Quebec to cover the student protests which have lasted for over 100 days. With recent negotiations breaking down again between the student ...

Peace envoy Kofi Annan has spoken of his frustration after the deadline given to President Assad by the Free Syrian Army to comply with the United Nations' peace plan expired. Amid mounting fears of a f...

LONDON (Reuters)- U.S. policymakers might talk down "boots on the ground" in Yemen but with an estimated several hundred military advisers already deployed, Washington and its allies are already being dra...

*Welcome to one of my favorite features on Reduce Footprints ... our monthly vegan recipe. This month's "guest chef" is no stranger to most of you ... she participates in our Change The World Wednesday ch...

(Reuters) - A Chinese state security official has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States, sources said, a case both countries have kept quiet for several months as they strive to preven...

BERLIN — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia arrived in Germany on Friday and is likely to face significant pressure from Chancellor Angela Merkel over Moscow’s continued backing of the Syrian governmen...

Source: https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/itu The open internet that has thrived over the past two decades -- the one we have come to know and love -- is threatened. That's because several countries, incl...

*Time for Vietnamese food.* Two days ago, in the post below this one, I blogged on the three-ring circus that the capital gains affair has become. The news is coming thick and fast.... First, the Premi...

Happy Birthday to Rene Auberjonois, 72. I just saw him in an episode of the Ellery Queen TV series. Not as bad as Benson, but not a performance I expect he's proud of (I mean, he wasn't very good on EQ -- ...

Ireland has voted 'yes' in a referendum on Europe's Fiscal Stability Treaty - committing the coalition government to stringent budgetary targets. Rejection would have prevented Ireland from accessing the E...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Pakistan at a depth of 14.7 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:03:41 UTC Friday 1st June 2012 The epicenter was 216 km (134 miles) Southeast of Chaba...

If you're a gaffe voyeur or a Twitter freak or both, here's another fun tool from the same folks who brought you that site showing you how to gloat over your congress critter's lousy vocabulary. It's calle...

*“Out of the Mouths of Babes”* by Ellen Brown "The youtube video of 12 year old Victoria Grant speaking at the Public Banking in America conference in April has gone viral, topping a million views on v...

Mitt Romney claims he knows how to solve the country's problems because of his experience in the private sector. During the Republican primary all of his opponents laughed at the absurdity of that assert...

The World Health Organisation seems to have become as politicised as the United Nations and other supranational bodies. Its Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly 'concluded Saturday after adopting 21 resoluti...

*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 6.1.12"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Greece is on life support. Spain is experiencing bank runs. Many countries are in or heading into recession. The European Union is in...

Little girl beaten up by Assad's forces? She's British and lives in England and got her injuries in England at a nursery school. *Survivor of Houla Massacre?* This image 'made from amateur video, rel...

Great English singer songwriter, Leon Rosselson, sings his own tribute to The Diggers and to Thomas Paine. Check out the fine cover version too by Scottish folkie, Dick Gaughan. Lyrics: In 1649 To St ...

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend recently. Not only are former employers suing ex-minions, but they’re trying to have them tossed in jail. That’s right: quit and go to jail, especially if you go to work for...

So, maybe this Debate about the Debate hasn't been a *total* waste of time. There have been some illuminating moments. Like this one into the pretzelly mind of SUZYALLCAPSLOCK. A-yup. We in Culture of D...

In this morning's *Globe and Mail*, four former environment ministers --Tom Siddon, David Anderson, John Fraser and Herb Dahliwal -- published a letter which they have sent to Stephen Harper. The four ...

Roger Alton in this week's Spectator has made an incredible statement. He claims that '... that miraculous Moscow 800 metres final when Seb Coe just pipped the favourite, Steve Ovett, to the gold.' Fact c...

*Yummi Saffron Rice!* Sometimes I can find rice quite boring, but it's actually an extremely versatile ingredient. You can pretty much flavor it however you want and create some amazing dishes with it. I ...

Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter’s talk in Parliament in London this week offered useful insights into how the Obama administration and foreign policy analysts around it are thinking about shaping internatio...

Russia Today AGAIN feature an anti-Bilderberg piece, this time focussing on the crowds that have gathered outside the Virginia Marriot Hotel in Chantilly VA to PROTEST. ** * Around 150 of the world's eli...

Muhammad Morsi is the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egyptian President who recently said that he will "achieve the Islamic conquest of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians convert to Isl...

Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, recently blamed Greece's economic woes on Greece having a population ‘who are trying to escape tax all the time’. This is fair comment, *howe...

PHOENIX — A bear attacked and injured a 74-year-old Arizona woman camping east of Payson in northern Arizona on Thursday, and now hounds and men are tracking the animal to put it down. The Apache Junctio...

The Sun will go red giant in 7.5 billion years but long before that moment, in about 4-6 billion years from now, "we" will be reminded of a neighbor we considered so well-known yet so detached. As The...

Several hundred people rallied at demonstrations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and other Australian cities yesterday to protest the British Supreme Court ruling that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assan...

Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano has blasted a tower of ash over nearby towns and villages prompting authorities to consider the possibility of evacuations. Popocatepetl sits roughly halfway between Mexico...

A Greek exit from the euro risks sparking uncontrollable contagion that may exhaust official funding sources, according to Societe Generale SA analysts. Greece leaving the euro may lead markets to question...

FUKUSHIMA -- The central government's efforts to reclassify evacuation areas around the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant under a new zoning system for decontamination and financial compensation has bee...

(Reuters) - It looked like a textbook win-win deal when Australian high-speed ferry designer AMD Marine Consulting formed a joint venture in 1993 with the engineering arm of a state-owned Chinese shipbuild...

Through the application of this technology it is possible to convert the fast patrol boats [FPB], in the inventory from merely fast craft to craft with immensely improved capabilities.The OSAs, for instance, if given a shot in the arm with this technology, could be transformed, into well-nigh unbeatable adversaries, at sea.

Canada:In early 1961 De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, was contracted by the Department of Defence, to construct the FHE 400, to establish the feasibility of an ocean going ASW hydrofoil.The first foil borne trails took place in April 1969.The craft was a super caviating steerable bow foil and sub caviating main foil in a canard configuration.The main foil is a combination of thefully submerged and surface piercing foil types and has a unique design made for excellent sea keeping qualities.The FHE 400 has been commissioned into the Canadian Navy as the Bras d’ Or.

Although military hydrofoils had been built during World War II, it is only recently that they have found acceptance, among NATO nations, as instruments of naval warfare – some 30 years after they had first proved their feasibility.Unlike the NATO nations, the Warsaw Pact countries were quick to recognize the suitability of hydrofoils for military roles and have been employing them on surveillance and other roles for many years

If the world fuel shortage is taken into consideration, as well as, the pollution problems which strangle today’s economy and life, the hydrofoil is tailor made to overcome these difficulties.A hydrofoil files clean and requires only 50 per cent of the power of a displacement vessel of comparable size, for a given speed.The advanced military hydrofoil is superior to conventional warships, due to its superior speed, which can be maintained even in a seaway and due to better sea keeping ability.In fact, hydrofoils do not need to be large [multi-thousand ton size] to provide an all weather capability, which is in stark contrast to conventional warships.

35.Various comparative studies have been undertaken to ascertain the validity of better sea keeping qualities in a hydrofoil as follows:

[a]A study conducted by Boeing, for the Royal Navy and presented before the Royal Institute of Naval Architects, showed that the Boeing Jet foil [a 110 ton craft with fully submerged foils controlled by a sonic control system] was capable of operation in the North Sea 96 per cent of the year [at speeds greater than 38 knots] [7][7].This corresponds to wave heights of four meters [see state 6].

Canada:One remarkably advanced concept, is the 200 ton HMCS Bras d’or [FHE 400] in the Canadian Navy designed for ASW operations in the open ocean.The surface piercing non-retractable foil system differs considerably from the usual configuration.It has a steerable bow foil carrying 10 per cent of the weight.The main rear foil uses sub caviating sections and is fully submerged.During trials wave heights of 25 feet were successfully negotiated.A calm water speed of 63 knots has been achieved by the craft, on one 22,000 h.p. gas turbine.A speed of 40 knots in 15 feet waves was also possible.Other models are now under development.

(Reuters) - Syria is nearing full-blown sectarian civil war that would be catastrophic for the entire Middle East, Western nations said on Thursday, urging Russia to end its support for President Bashar a...

With the euro zone debt signals flashing red again, record after record has tumbled across asset classes as investors scramble to find security for their cash. The euro hit its lowest against the dollar i...

(Reuters) - China's slowdown worsened in May as its factories saw a further deterioration in demand at home and abroad, dealing a new blow to a global economy struggling with a sharp downturn in Europe an...

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